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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2006
Filed:
May. 11, 2001
Tsuguo Maru, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuguo Maru, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A high-speed turbo decoder using a BCJR (Bahi, Cocke, Jelinek, and Raviv) algorithm or a BCJR algorithm which makes approximation by ACS computation (Add-Compare-Select computation) includes a supplier for supplying a plurality of pipelined stages of gamma metrics as a section for performing at least one of alpha metric computation and beta metric computation in the BCJR algorithm, an ACS computation portion which is constituted by a plurality of stages of cascade connections and receives the plurality of pipelined gamma metrics, a receiver that receives a computation result obtained by the ACS computation portion and updates state metrics every plurality of stages (K stages), and a memory for storing state metrics for every K stages.